UK WTO & 3rd countries

The current Director General of the World Trade Organization Roberto Azevêdo and his predecessor Pascal Lamy have been heard a lot in British media in recent days. None of them are looking favourably at the prospect of the UK leaving the European Union after the coming referendum on the issue …

The UK referendum over its EU membership planned for June looms large in the British debate over TTIP. “The government position is to stay within the European Union, a reformed European Union”, Verity Threlfell, Assistant Director at the Transatlantic and International Unit from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, …

The German Marshall Fund hosted its annual Brussels forum gathering the transatlantic foreign policy community this week-end. Asked to comment on the trade policy dimension of a potential exit of the United Kingdom from the EU at a joint session with Cecilia Malmström, his counterpart, USTR Michael Froman, who …

Former trade commissioner Peter Mandelson expressed doubts the United Kingdom would be able to have an effective trade policy if it left the European Union. His remarks were made at a conference in London also attended by the current commissioner, Cecilia Malmström, on Thursday (25 February). The event comes …

Trade policy plays a big role in the British debate on whether or not to remain in the EU. Today is a big day in Brussels: Prime Minister David Cameron will be in town ‘negotiating’ a new ‘deal’ for the United Kingdom in the European bloc. His aim is to use this deal …